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Easy come, easy go
1- Things easily acquired may be lost just as easily.
easy come, easy go
2- A phrase suggesting lack of concern over how things turn out, and particularly over money: 鈥淪he never took things very seriously; 鈥榚asy come, easy go鈥 was her motto.鈥
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Idioms and Phrases
Readily won and readily lost, as in Easy come, easy go鈥攖hat's how it is for Mark when he plays the stock market . This phrase states a truth known since ancient times and expressed in numerous proverbs with slightly different wording ( lightly come , lightly go ; quickly come , quickly go ). The adverb easy was substituted in the early 1800s.Example Sentences
When layoffs are done remotely, managers may not fully feel the human cost of their decisions, Sutton said: It鈥檚 鈥渁 little bit easy come, easy go.鈥
Mr. Gerber responded, 鈥渆asy come, easy go 鈥︹
He sings famous lyrics including "easy come, easy go, little high, little low", and "any way the wind blows".
鈥淓asy come, easy go!鈥 she shouted into the crackling autumn air.
鈥淥bviously it was a bummer, but as an actor, really, truly, it鈥檚 easy come, easy go. These things, they come together and they fall apart all the time.鈥
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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